XP3200 capabilities

[wannabedamned]

What would you say the limit on an XP3200 is? Gaming wise ofcourse

Imagine having a good motherboard, and the greatest AGP card on the market, So in doing so that takes out any other factors.

What game out there is going to be limited by that particular CPU?

Is oblivion going to have any chance? I mean with a good graphics card a lot of strain will be taken off the processor surely?

 

[the shadow]

SUPREME COMMANDER

 

[V|per]

SUPREME COMMANDER

totally agreed!

cnc3 may even be limited.. and possibly generals... very cpu dependant games...

 

[the shadow]

Microsofts flight sim will have it steaming.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

as above probably one supreme commander. cnc3 works great on my [email protected] but gfx options need to be turned down cuz the gfx card is too slow (7600gs)

but as above turning off something like shadows nets a massive speed boost.

 

[yantorsen]

SUPREME COMMANDER

rig in my sig plays the demo of supcom at bout 5fps lol

 

[mrthingyx]

All depends. At stock, they can struggle due to the shere volume of computation required in modern games.

If you overclock them and get to 2.5GHz, they do a reasonable impression of an Athlon 64 3200. nicholas_yiu managed to get his 2.83GHz chip to wallop even 3500s in very convincing fashion.

But the chips require overclocking to do that.

So what would be the limit on games? I've only managed to get X3: The Threat up to around 32fps with a 2.4GHz XP3200 coupled with an X800XT. Stick a Core2Duo in there and it instantly goes up by 15-20fps.

It all depends on what you're happy with at the end of the day. Me personally? I'm going to dive back into watercooling to thrash the pants off mine before going for a full upgrade, purely because the watercooling will be good for any other system I move to and I can extend the current systems life.

 

[V|per]

Water cooling the xp-m's was awesome, managed to get an IQYHA xp-m 2500+ to 3ghz (and yes, this was stable) quite surprising how much they have in them... (i was chucking 2.1v through the cpu mind )

 

[Amonlym]

these things arent half bad. of great importance is memory timings... 3-4-4-10, bad. 2-2-2-6 good.

as people have said, just wind it up as far as ou can, it will do fine.

i used to run oblivon on an XP-M 2600+ @ 2600mhz with a 9800pro, worked decently well. it also runs generals and C+C3 AND sup com fine, obv your not playing with full details however....

remember, anything that NEEDS SSE2/3 will not work. i dunno if there are any games that do, but worth remembering

 

[mrthingyx]

remember, anything that NEEDS SSE2/3 will not work. i dunno if there are any games that do, but worth remembering

Yes - this is one of the reasons AMD64 managed to level the playing field: SSE2/3 support. And probably SSE4 soon enough.

 

[helmutcheese]

Lost Planet and DIRT will install but wont run with a non SSE2 CPU, Codemasters say they may patch this later, Lost Planet makers said they do not intend to.

New AMD CPU's soon are to have SSE4a (I think thats correct)